A pair of researchers at Applied Physics has created what they describe as the first general model for a warp drive, a model for a space craft that could travel faster than the speed of light, without actually breaking the laws of physics. Alexey Bobrick, and Gianni Martire have written a paper describing their ideas for a warp drive and have…
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A warp drive that doesn’t break the laws of physics is possible
Previous ideas for warp drives have required types of matter that do not seem to exist, but a new concept could allow them to be made without any imaginary substances Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269544-a-warp-drive-that-doesnt-break-the-laws-of-physics-is-possible/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Meet the swirlon, a new kind of matter that bends the laws of physics
A new form of active matter known as swirlonic matter clumps together in quasi-particles that bend the laws of physics. Source: https://www.livescience.com/swirlonic-matter-unusual-behavor.html
Pandemic Paved the Way for Sim Racing, but Will It Last?
It takes more than gasoline to make a racecar run. It requires money. And money requires sponsors. And sponsors require spectators who they hope will become customers. Which became a problem for motorsports when Covid-19 shut down tracks worldwide early last year. The cash drought put teams, tracks and race series in danger of extinction. From a report: The industry turned…
How chaos and tendency to reach thermal equilibrium arise from fundamental laws of physics
Normally the word “chaos” evokes a lack of order: a hectic day, a teenager’s bedroom, tax season. And the physical understanding of chaos is not far off. It’s something that is extremely difficult to predict, like the weather. Chaos allows a small blip (the flutter of a butterfly wing) to grow into a big consequence (a typhoon halfway across the world),…